Their tone seemed rather one of persuasion.

After a few paces I stood still, with all of them around me.

The horrible repast showed plainly all that was in store for us.
They received us kindly and fed us well only to devote us to the most abhorrent of deaths.

Agnew, in his mad confidence, was only insuring his own doom.

He was putting himself completely in the power of devils, who were incapable of pity and strangers to humanity.